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Adena Springs North Welcomes Three New Stallions From Kentucky Location

Adena Springs North in Aurora, Ont. is welcoming three new additions to their stallion roster for the 2021 breeding season, due to the sale of Frank Stronach's Kentucky farm, according to Canadian Thoroughbred. Joining Canada's leading sire of 2020, Silent Name, will be Shaman Ghost, Point of Entry, and American Guru.

Shaman Ghost will be entering his fourth season at stud in 2021 and his first foals will be starting their racing careers at the same time. The multiple Grade 1 winner finished first in eight of his 17 career starts including the Queen's Plate, the G1 Woodward, and the G1 Santa Anita Handicap. He was also second to the late champion Arrogate in the 2017 Pegasus World Cup. The 7-year-old son of top sire Ghostzapper will stand for $7,500.

Point of Entry will be entering his eighth season at stud in 2021. The multiple G1 winning son of Dynaformer stands for a fee of $7,500. He was the first horse since champion Theatrical to win the G1 Man o' War, G1 Sword Dancer and G1 Joe Hirsch Invitational in the same season. His top runners consist of G2 UAE Derby winner Plus Que Parfait, multiple graded stakes winner Analyze It, and Woodbine 2-year-old stakes winners My Gal Betty and Glamanation.

American Guru will stand his first season at stud in 2021 at a fee of $3,000. He won four of seven career starts on turf and tapeta including a one mile turf race at Belmont Park in 1:32.09. The son of Unbridled's Song is out of a three-quarter sister to Indy Five Hundred – dam of Albert Park and Magny Cours.

Thomas Moves From Private Practice To Regulatory Vet Duties In Maryland

Dr. Heidi Thomas, who has roughly 25 years of experience as a private veterinary practitioner primarily in Florida, has been getting acclimated since she started her job as the Maryland Jockey Club Senior Veterinarian in mid-October.

Thomas, originally from Connecticut, earned her undergraduate degree at Purdue University in Indiana and her veterinary degree at Tufts University School of Veterinary Medicine in Massachusetts. Though she has done regulatory veterinary work at tracks in Florida and Arizona, much of her time has been with the prominent veterinary practice Teigland, Franklin & Brokken, DVMs in South Florida.

She was working at Gulfstream Park and Gulfstream Park West before relocating to Maryland.

As the MJC Senior Veterinarian, Thomas works closely with Dr. Libby Daniel, the Maryland Racing Commission's Equine Medical Director. Her primary role is to monitor training at Laurel Park and Pimlico Race Course.

“I'm learning the routine and getting to know the people and horses,” Thomas said. “The Maryland racetracks are a nice place to be. The recent regulatory changes made in Maryland have improved horse health and safety. I'm available if anyone at the track needs assistance, and I'm happy to answer any questions.”

Thomas owns a retired racehorse and has a special interest in aftercare and rescue organizations.

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Ed Vaughan Makes The Move To The U.S. For Phoenix Thoroughbreds

Two months after sending out his last runner in Britain, Ed Vaughan has restarted his training career in the United States, where he will have the continued support of owners Phoenix Thoroughbreds.

Vaughan, 47, announced in July that he would be winding up his stable in Newmarket after 16 years, declaring that rising costs and declining prize money levels were making running a training business increasingly unviable.

The 47-year-old signed off when his final runner, Hackness Harry, won at Kempton – but, in an interview with The Owner Breeder, revealed he has set up a new base at Keeneland in Lexington. He hopes to have his first runners in the new year on the Tapeta all-weather surface at Turfway Park in northern Kentucky.

Among a team that could reach a dozen are three horses he was training for the controversial Phoenix Thoroughbreds team, who had separately announced they were quitting Britain amid intense media scrutiny over the organization's funding sources.

“Moving to the US had been on my mind for a long time,” Vaughan told Owner Breeder magazine. “I just needed to work the logistics out. Fortunately some horses that I trained in England have come over to Kentucky.

“It's obviously very exciting,” he went on. “It's a new chapter and it's like I'm starting all over again. I'm definitely not worried though. I've had good support from the right people and the move makes sense.

“With prize-money the way it is in Britain, it just became increasingly difficult to continue training. We'll be racing for some proper prize-money in Kentucky.”

Vaughan trained more than 200 winners in Britain, landing his biggest success this year when Dame Malliot won the Group 2 Princess Of Wales's Stakes in July.

His was one of 11 British stables to train for big-spending Phoenix, the self-styled “world's first regulated thoroughbred fund” which launched in 2017 with strings in the US and Australia as well as Europe.

However, by the time Vaughan handed in his licence, Phoenix had been barred from having runners in France and Britain over concerns about its funding which stemmed from allegations made in a New York court that CEO and founder Amer Abdulaziz was a key money-launderer for a fake $4 billion cryptocurrency scam. Abdulaziz has categorically denied the claims.

Phoenix said 3-year-old maiden War Cross, a $200,000 son of War Front, unraced Kingman filly Lady De Peron, a 275,000gns buy, and Miss Chess, owned by the affiliated Phoenix Ladies Syndicate, had been shipped to the U.S. from Newmarket. Other horses could follow.

“We are delighted that Ed will remain part of the Phoenix team,” Abdulaziz said. “He is an extremely talented trainer and valued advisor who we are sure will be a success in the US. It's doubly pleasing that we can give him some talented horses to work with that he already knows so well. We are very excited for Ed as he embarks on this next chapter of his career.”

This story originally appeared on Horse Racing Planet and is republished here with permission.

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Jesus’ Team Triumphs In Claiming Crown Jewel On His Way To The Pegasus

Prepping for a planned start in the $3 million Pegasus World Cup Invitational (Grade 1) Jan. 23 at Gulfstream Park, Grupo 7C Racing Stable's Jesus' Team returned to winning form in Saturday's $150,000 Claiming Crown Jewel at the historic Hallandale Beach racetrack.

The Jewel headlined the 22nd edition of the Claiming Crown, a nine-stakes event that pays tribute to the claiming horses that provide the backbone of day-to-day racing programs at racetracks throughout the country.

Jesus' Team hadn't won in six starts since defeating $25,000 claimers at Gulfstream May 8, but the 3-year-old son of Tapiture earned 2-5 favoritism Saturday after finishing third in the Preakness Stakes (G1) at Pimlico and the Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile (G1) at Keeneland in his two most recent starts.

“I think the race was good for him because he only had the one work since the Breeders' Cup. After the Breeders' Cup he was in Ocala in a round pen and small paddock,” trainer Jose D'Angelo said. “I think he's going very well into the Pegasus World Cup.”

Ridden by Luis Saez, Jesus' Team saved ground while racing directly behind Storm Runner, who set fractions of 23.14 and 46.40 seconds for the first half-mile of the 1 1/8-mile stakes for horses that had raced at least once for a claiming price of $35,000 or lower in 2019-2020. Storm Runner, who finished off the board in the 2019 Fountain of Youth (G2) and Florida Derby (G1), set an uncontested pace along the backstretch and around the far turn under Corey Lanerie before entering the homestretch with a clear lead. Saez eased Jesus' Team off the rail coming off the turn into the homestretch, and the overachieving colt gradually wore down the pacesetter to prevail by three quarters of a length.

“This is a very nice horse, who ran a very big race last time. I knew today would be a little tough, because he ran so big last time out, but he has such a big heart,” Saez said. “Today, I had to ride him a little hard, but he gave me that kick and always tries. He's a nice horse.”

Jesus's Team ran 1 1/8 miles in 1:49.30.

“I know the speed might be hard to beat, so I'm very happy with his race,” D'Angelo said.

Dale Romans-trained Storm Runner, who won a $20,000 claiming race and a starter allowance race in his only two starts this year, finished two-lengths ahead of Dack Janiel's, who had stalked the pace outside Jesus' Team.

After winning the $25,000 claiming race in May and finishing second behind graded-stakes winner Sole Volante in an allowance in June at Gulfstream, Jesus' Team finished fourth in the Haskell (G1) and second in the ungraded Pegasus at Monmouth. He went on to finish third in the Jim Dandy (G2) at Saratoga before earning G1 placings in the Preakness and Dirt Mile.

“I am very sure he's going to improve because this race worked out very good for him,” D'Angelo said. “I can give him some days off and prepare him for the Pegasus World Cup.”

D'Angelo was a champion trainer in Venezuela and saddled his first starter in the U.S. after venturing to South Florida in June 2019.

“I feel blessed,” D'Angelo said.

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